Kaja Miku

This is pretty fun - it's a vocabulary game that, when you answer a question correctly, donates rice to end world hunger. I'll admit I only really spent ages on here because of the game, but the idea that you might be helping is a warm thought.

Huge gap between posts yet again, whoo! Update time.

Christmas and New Year's were both spent at my parent's house and both ended up being quite enjoyable. Or, at least, my opinion is above indifference. Or something. I liked the 'family home' feeling for once, which might have affected it, and Mama seems to have finally realised that I've been living away from her for well over a year. She seemed to look at me as a fellow adult instead of as 'her little girl' (though I've been assured by my Father Dearest that I'll never quite escape that). It was a refreshing change to be a sort of familial visitor (it never felt like home really, though my room was certainly My Room) instead of the situation here in The Castle. The parents were in a 'taking care of people' mood most of the holiday so I enjoyed a lot of pampering (or as close as it gets to pampering in that house). I was forced into the company of family most of the time and only really had a little of the mornings (yes, mornings, Mama came to wake me up if I 'cheekily' - her word not mine - tried to sleep in beyond eleven); the house is surreal at that time of day, all pale and confusingly warm, smelling of breakfast even while Mama is eating lunch (she eats an early lunch, at around twelve, so we'd eat together).

The Christmas tree was the same old, dull thing from every year before that I can remember and there wasn't over-kill on decorations. The new house was a beautiful little place when I went to see it before, but it looks like my family's house now; they've painted and sorted out the windows and such now so it's gorgeously warm if you keep the doors and windows closed. Bit draughty in the downstairs hall maybe. And the floor in Jammie and my wing is really cold on bare feet (though I felt somewhat amazed at first that I could walk around without ten layers of clothes, socks and warm slippers on - in The Castle you'd die).

I got slippers for my birthday (mostly monies otherwise, which is fine by me), which I'm wearing now actually, that are ugly but so warm it doesn't matter in the slightest. Christmas at home was better than usual in my opinion, even the visit to my Aunt's didn't dim its greatness; was forced out of bed early unfortunately, but we can't have everything, then we had coffee (parents), tea (me >:D ) and Tango (Jammie) in the living room with the fire going full and Billy Connolly turned down on the TV, to exchange gifts. Again, the majority of what I got was money, but my Mama had at some point seen some really pretty hand-painted rice bowls (expensive little beasts by the sound of it - I'm a bit afraid to eat out of them XD) so I got to open something while they did the ooh-ahh thing. My brother and I halved on a cake stand and glass dome (that goes over the top obviously) for the Mother and I got my Father Dearest a Marvel calender. I should probably do something different this year, I get him a superhero calender every year...

But anyway, then we had dinner (after lengthy preparations, some spillages, cursing and my off-hand observations of faces I could see in the cooking vegetables I was supposed to be watching over) with plenty of gorgeous champagne (Father Dearest greatly amused himself by pouring champagne in Mama and my glasses when we weren't paying attention) and little boxes of truffles in the shape of tiny boxed presents. There was much merry-making and slight tipsy-ness, as well as dancing in the conservatory as we laughed and tried to get the men to join in (to no avail unfortunately).

In the evening we visited my Aunt's and saw my grandparents and cousins. Good fun, surprisingly. It was nice to see everyone. In being away from them for so long I had a fresh look on them and enjoyed their company as 'one of them' instead of a relation in the corner. The following days had more family visitations and meals, as well as one or two trips out to Taunton and such. I managed some writing, but not a significant amount, I planned quite a bit. I also watched some anime, which I hadn't done for ages (or so it felt like) - Basilisk, Saiunkoku (again), Black Lagoon, Tactics... I also got into the Basara manga (which I thought I wouldn't do when I finished the anime).

I had a dentist's appointment on New Year's eve, which I was taken to by my parents, as usual, with my Dad not even looking at the place and parking as far away in the car park as possible, as usual. The dentist (what kind of horrible, sadistic child would want to be a dentist?) poked around in my mouth a bit, told me the cavity he'd seen last year was still there and needed filling ("It'll only get worse" he said - did he really think it would have disappeared since he last saw me? I mean, I only wish, but...) and he decided to clean my teeth. I despised that, it took a lot of self control to let him do it. Hook, hook, scrape, poke, hook, hook, screeech. He also said I should be flossing, and while he was saying it would help me from needing the dentists as much I was thinking "yeah, alright, I'll do that" and then he told me - me, the girl who faints and gets nauseous from the slightest bit of blood - that when I did it, it would bleed. "It'll bleed, not too much, but I thought I'd tell you in advance" - D8

Father Dearest got invited in by the secretary, which amused me because he wouldn't even cross the threshold let alone sit in the chair. I'm lucky I can really, it takes a day or two of building myself up beforehand to get the strength of will. I'm worse with doctors. So is he.

Anyway, over New Year's there was dancing, singing and cheering when the strike of twelve came (Mama stayed up late for it and went to bed as soon as it was over), a meal at the Harvester in Taunton - beautiful, I love those places - and a buffet at my parent's house with every family member we could fit around the tables. I was forced to sit with the kiddies and felt really old XD I spent some time playing Umbrella Chronicles with my brother, an entire day in fact, which I loved. I discovered over the holiday, also, that my brother has a surprisingly good sense of humour; he was describing the plot of Green Green to me and had me practically in stitches with his 'routine'. I strongly advised him to start doing YouTube videos or some such thing. His lack of confidence in himself will disappear quickly enough I think.

In summary, I didn't get much done over the holidays and I stayed too long and didn't start my assignments quickly enough, but I enjoyed it.

Assignments, three of them, were top of the list as soon as I got back to The Castle. Requirements, Analysis and Engineering - doing a specification and some UML, use-cases and blah for a system they gave us a description of - Artificial Intelligence - just a literary review because it's a half unit - and Entertainment Systems - a J2ME game for a mobile phone. I got it all done and handed in pretty much on time (not sure about AI, it was possibly five minutes late because the time had be changed or something, but I hope not), but it was a nightmare and now I'm in recovery mode and totally exhausted.

RAS was boring, I didn't have the strength of will required to do it quickly, it was done in short, painful bursts. AI was interesting and I'm a little pleased with the results, though it wasn't complete since I ran out of time (did the whole thing in one day including tons of research *death*). ES was great fun - making a game? Why wouldn't it be? - but it was really stressful because J2ME is terribly different from the usual Java and it took me longer than I initially thought to get used to it. I wish I'd started it earlier and had had more time because I didn't put in all the features asked for. I'll probably still pass, but my mark won't be high. I'm doubting high marks for any of them now and it's really depressing.

Still, I'll wrap up my update here just for tiredness' sake. I'm starting to lose focus a bit, best to stop while I can still hold my head up, eh? :D

Kaja

So yeah. Birthday was fun-ish. Slept most of it away and had some Chinese in the evening when I eventually woke up, after making plans with 'Feo and having a long too-hot shower :D

Amico is now all new and pretty. I went through a lot during the format/partition/install XP/spazz evening, including my default ethernet port 'not existing', drivers that I couldn't install due to lack of Internet (and a driver CD-ROM that was absolutely revolting), amusing/horrible/annoying resolution while I sought graphics drivers, a long transfer of data from various media back onto Amico's hard drive while I used my laptop and good speakers for music due to no sound drivers, etc. I have all the drivers collected on back-up now, so I'll never have to search for them again. Thank Bobble(??).

Went to 'Feo's house last night and we actually managed to do quite a bit of work on Forbidden Wings ^^ I'm very proud of us. Now we have to get together again many times before I go back to University, just to keep on the roll we seemed to be on last night. It was brilliant seeing her again - I felt so understood finally! *tear* :D

I don't know what the family are doing for the rest of the week but I know Christmas days will be horrible and family-orientated so I'm going to try and write like crazy in the time I have left. I want to do more Wings of course, but I also want to dance in a different direction a bit too. I want to maybe do some one-shots for practice, I lined some up in preparation for coming home after all.

I just wanted a quick update and here it is. I'll go back to my really warm room with its many candles and incense, perhaps read or do some notebook-ing before I watch a film and go to bed. Maybe I should finish Heroes (not many episodes to go) or watch some CSI... or The Batman or Justice League Unlimited... Hmmm... We shall see. Nighty-bais.

Kaja

He picked up the dice and rolled, waited for a six, another, cursed his failures and drank to success. How could he lose tonight?

The week has been tiring. I haven't had enough sleep even though I slept for over twelve hours last night. Went to visit Microsoft in Reading yesterday, which meant getting up near five to be there at seven or something. Urgh. Really, just urgh. Coach trip was spent napping both ways, but you know what it's like when you're trying to sleep in that confined a space, it's not restful in any way, shape or form. Still, the visit itself was great. Really enjoyable other than my near-fainting in the middle of the day. We all got free t-shirts and DVDs with C# game development software on it. Will have to look into that some time. We've been talking about all going into Uni wearing the Microsoft t-shirt on the same day, for the fun of it XD

Other than that, did I mention I was tired? Going home on Sunday night, going out with Gav and James for Chinese on Saturday (then staying with Gav to finish watching Lucky Star) so my weekend it pretty much gone (will have to pack everything on Sunday too >_>). Today and tomorrow I'll be writing. I've spent most of my time awake writing today and I hope to do the same tomorrow too. I'm doing a nice scene in Wings. It's pretty and there will be sex...

:O *has just realised she will have to write sex* O_o *flails*

There's something indescribably funny in planning to do something and then realising you'll have to do it.

Am almost finished with CSI Season Two and... I love Grissom and DO NOT WANT Grissom x Sarah D: Really, just DOES NOT WANT. Grissom's sexy (loved him with the owner of the BDSM club :D) and I do not like Sarah except very occasionally. Buu to that.

*cough* I'm going to go back to Wings and cooking dinner now *escapes*

Kaja

I feel like I have loads to do and not enough time to do it in. But it's not that I'm doing other things, I'm just pressured by invisible time limits I think. Explanation: internship placement for next year is being a great big arse.

Other than that, I've just been sitting around watching things, writing and idea-ing. Not very interesting really. It's what I usually do.

The MyJobs@Oracle application thing is being a pain. The work experience bit won't let me put in a date beyond this month. My current job won't finish until next April or May. Problem. That's just bad design, it really is. I'm surprised no one has noticed it before. I'm going to have to e-mail them at this rate and tell them that their online application is crap.

Buu.

In other news, Matt and I have a guy coming in tomorrow to watch us do our PAL session. Problem is that we don't do our sessions as we were taught to in the training. Oops. So we've told our people to act cool while we structure-ify their session tomorrow and actually do something similar to what the guy will want to see XD

Also, I'm planning to go home on Sunday instead of the Saturday before Christmas, mostly to cheer my family up because they're down over my Nan's health. It won't disturb my plans too much hopefully, since I have a lot to do over the holidays (AI and Entertainment Systems assignments, wiping Amico and making him pretty, replacing Ubuntu with Fedora on Nestor, playing with the old systems Mama and Papa have for me at home, text book reading, writing and the reading for Kitty I promised to do) and family tends to eat up my time with, you know, not having seen me for months. Ja, so I'll stop rambling since I should get back to applications or writing or something constructive before I settle down to read for the night.

Kaja

EDIT// 'The Gymnast' is the most gorgeous film in the world. Absolutely perfect. I can't recommend it enough.

Assignment was done and handed in on time. Thank god. Now I'm enjoying post-assignment-rush relaxation. Kinda. I've watched some crime scenes and superheroes, got some ideas and attempted to find the link I'm missing from the middle of Wings to the end.

I have up to about the middle planned (a lie really, it's more like two thirds but hey, who cares about something like that?) and then there's a huge gap with only bits a pieces of plot that I know need to happen. I have some character build-and-crumble to do in that time (poor main character gets this treatment so much - yay for sadistic writers) and the development of the situation that gets its climax at the end... problem is, no lead up and nothing between the lead up bits for character development. I need plot, dammit, plot! A side problem is the random (or not really so random) order of chapters; her life is nowhere near chronological order (end at beginning, beginning in second chapter, ending in middle, etc.) so it takes both more and less thought to sort everything out. I'll get there, I'm sure.

Other than that there hasn't been much to report. I'm not feeling great, I think I'm a little ill though it might just be exhaustion because I certainly have that. I did some poking of my CV finally, though I've been saying I will for months and months, but I haven't done any applications because I found I couldn't concentrate properly when I went to attack them. Tomorrow then. Or maybe not. Depends how I feel and whether I go out to Noble House with Gavi-pon. I did say I would, but we had Chinese last night, so...

Because I just re-read this I thought I'd post the opening bit to it. I don't know if I'll ever finish it, but I like the beginning. See what you think:

The pungent smell of coffee is too close and too strong for him, he feels sick already and he hasn't left the airport yet. The woman beside him has been drinking coffee non-stop since she chose the spot next to him, piling more coats than necessary for one person into the stiff padded metal seat on her other side, getting up only to buy another plastic cup of the foul liquid. He wonders at her resilient bladder; she hasn't visited the ladies room once yet.

Opposite him there is a family of four; one of the children had bumped into him as he got out of a taxi at the front of the airport and had not apologised, his pale father had given a hurried 'excuse me' in his place. The mother, he thinks, is probably not the real mother of the two boys; they favour the father and when she tries to speak to them, they ignore or stick their tongues out at her. The father doesn't do anything, he only sits uncomfortably a seat away from the woman, looking ill with his hands clasped in front of him, eyes fixed on the freshly-swept ground. The boys are terrors; they run around the long metal seats, yelling with brash youthful voices and fighting, pushing and shoving, throwing crayons and felt tip pens they refuse to pick up when the cleaner asks them to, allies only from outside attack.

Behind the family of four, there are two teenagers sitting beside a business man in a pinstripe suit; the teens look bored and occasionally talk quietly, snickering at people who pass them or complaining in dull voices, the words indistinct. The man has been reading the same page of his newspaper for half an hour.

He notices these people because he thinks that they must be on the same flight as him; it has been delayed for two hours already and none of them has moved. He also notices them because he chose the quietest corner to sit in and these are the people closest to him. Slowly, he stretches out his legs, careful that the package on his lap doesn't get knocked too much; when the boy had run into him earlier, the box had rattled in a somewhat worrying way and, the contents not belonging to him, he didn't really want to harm whatever was inside. He draws his legs back as the woman next to him gets up yet again, her hands shaking as they add another plastic cup to the growing stack on the cold metal armrest. He wonders again whether he should move seats.

The too-familiar woman's voice echoes out over the speakers - their plane has finally arrived, boarding will begin soon. He feels relieved as the curly-haired caffeine-addict returns to her seat with a bagel and a bottle of water.

Right, so now I'm going back to idea collecting and listening to Portishead - I just realised I like them a lot, especially this song - just because I can't be arsed with much else. I may watch a film (I have 'American Gangster', 'Bad Guy' and 'Muyeong Geom' lined up because I haven't been watching much lately due to assignments and NaNo) or I may not. I feel indecisive tonight. Ah well, whatever. I'm going to sleep in tomorrow. I hate feeling this tired. Night, people.

Kaja

So yeah, my prediction came true. MSP really does induce suicidal-type feelings :O

I started it at around one o'clock this morning, went to sleep at three-ish and now I'm sat down to finish it. Frank (lecturer) said it would take ten hours but having started it... ten hours my ass. (For Ob: "That wasn't an invitation!")

So um yeah. Stupid MSP with its WBS and Gantt charts and math and person-months >:| Kill it now. It would make us all much happier. We're supposed to be doing a project plan for a company to design a flood alert system. Great fun. Lots of planning and charts and risk assessment and estimation... It's kind of interesting, but a dull, "I'll kill something with prolonged exposure" sort of interesting.

I have lots of things to do so I want to finish this early-ish tonight so I can spend some of the evening buying Christmas presents (got parents, just need James and Matt now), tidying up and updating my CV and doing some applications. I need to start reading makaikitty's fic too because I said I would and keep remembering it and realising I really have no time. November is not a good month for me X_x Still, it's December now so I'll have some more free time - no assignment hand-ins until January now. Though the two that there are, are both large so I'll have to at least attempt to start them early; Entertainment Systems I need to do a game for a mobile phone (Java of course) and Artificial Intelligence I need to do a literature review. Both will take time.

When I go home for Christmas I'll mostly be reading, writing and doing my new website (because I keep meaning to do it and not doing it >_< ). I've been told my room is all pretty and over-warm now, though my Mum's idea of over-warm I usually find chilly, so we'll see.

Okay, just looked at the time and realised it's approaching midday... better get back to it before I waste the whole day with CSI and superheroes like I did yesterday XD

Kaja

So I made NaNo. Just. With half an hour to spare. And 'Wings' still is nowhere near done... it needs crazy amounts of editing and adding to as well. But I feel somewhat accomplished. Hopefully I'll be able to finish at least most of it before January so I can start sharing it and asking for opinions. It was an of-the-moment idea so I'm a little surprised I managed to get such a story from it, I've been upset by the way I'm making things go a few times and one of the death scenes, just thinking as I was writing it, made me all teary. I love my 'Wings' ;_;

*cough* But yes, other than NaNo (which, really, I screwed myself over with since I didn't start until half way through the month and the whole of my word count ended up being done in less than a week) I had three assignments to do, one of which is due Tuesday and I still haven't started it. Go me! I also started going to pen and paper D&D with Matt on Tuesdays with some members of our PAL group and some other people I don't know. We also went to a Writer's Circle Tuesday right after the D&D. I really enjoyed myself, other than the initial off-put of being surrounded by people over fifty (there were some younger ones, but the majority were old) and the slight panic when, after the workshop bit, they started getting people to read out what they'd written >_> I'd definitely go again, with or without someone else going with me, but I don't know if I'll go to their Christmas one (it's two meetings a month).

In other news, I'm enjoying reading Murakami's 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles' and haven't watched anime in weeks ;_; I've had plenty of ideas but during NaNo I didn't write anything other than 'Wings' so my brain is bursting with the need to do something different for a while. Not that I'll stop with 'Wings'... I'm going to finish that thing if it kills me.

But yeah. So today I'm going to go shopping with James Gavi-pon is a bastard and has just gone to bed so he won't be coming with us like he said he would, which means I have to go shopping with incompetent men twice to make them get clothes to get him clothes that are worn through in inappropriate places and too small for him. After that I need to do my CV and go through some job applications before I start my MSP ASSignment. Buu. Do not want.

Another post will no doubt appear sometime this weekend when I am bored out of my skull with MSP and want to die. Till then :D

Kaja

Whoo. Now I'm going to die somewhere until my brain reminds me that 'Wings' is still nowhere near finished... *death*

I keep saying I'll post regularly... and then I don't XD

Doctor's appointment was had and... enjoyed =_= First PAL session was bad, second was good (though extremely messy as we did the "make towers out of marshmellows and spaghetti" thing) and we had the third today. We gave them two lots of kitchen foil and told them to make a farm XDD

Other than PAL and general exhaustion nothing has been happening so I suppose there isn't much to report... I was ill Friday and had to get a taxi home after a couple of hours (or rather, Matt called and helped me to a taxi >_> I don't remember the taxi journey at all now...) and I was horribly ill Saturday and Sunday too. To the point where I was in bed all of both days with two duvets, a throw and a hot-water-bottle still cold. Awful stuff.

Went out with Mama, Nana, Grandad and Jammie yesterday to Castle Point shopping centre and Nan bought me a waistcoat I'd been wanting... though I was miffed by their poo-poo of a shirt (which I really liked) because 'it's a man's shirt and does nothing for my figure' ...so what? It's a nice shirt and the colour suits me. I'm going to go back at some point and buy it :D

Writing-wise, I've done more note writing this weekend than all of last week XD I couldn't sit up properly for long enough to write, so I had my notebook beside me all the time. I think I should spend more time in Reflection-Mode.

I decided to do NaNo this year. I know, I know, suicide. But come on, how could I not? I only didn't do it last year because I'd just started Uni and didn't really have the motivation or the time. I have a basic plot outline but I'm mostly just going to wing it and see what happens. I haven't done that in a while.

Anyway, I will eventually get back into the habit. I need to start a lot of good habits soon. LJ, reading... Till I remember!

Kaja

I so meant to do constructive things this weekend. Oops.

Fresher's Fair on Saturday and Mattie and I infiltrated with no effort whatsoever and got many free stuffs that we didn't really need. Fun though.

I updated my WordPress with a status post and the first couple of chapters of my Vampire x Werewolf fic. I'll probably post them here too at some point, but there's no guarantee so if you'd like to poke them I suggest you go there just in case.

I'm on my University's website. I found myself this morning when I was looking up details about fencing: I'm the one to the far left, wearing a white top and grey/pink/white trousers.

Mattie-kins and I have our first PAL session tomorrow and our planning was basically, "Well, we need to do this and this. Also, we should do an ice breaker... we'll put them into pairs and get them to talk about each other, that sounds okay. Then... we'll just let them talk, yeah? Yeah, okay. So, James what were you saying earlier about Red Dwarf?" Yay for us. We also have 'Requirements, Analysis and Specification' (RAS?) and 'Internet Software Applications' (ISA XD) lectures. RAS lab as well. I need to go to the doctors and make an appointment tomorrow too.

I spent way too much money on shopping today... I'm smugly satisfied and purring about the amount of snacks I've accumulated, but I feel sorry for my bank account - it hasn't even had the joy of student loans yet ;_;

(Can anyone tell me what the Chinese for 'ice' is? Romanised so I can pronounce it would be preferable :O Thankees in advance.)

Yeah, had enough for today and it's not even midnight. I just want to curl up in bed and sleep for England... I may do so, after a couple of films to make sure I won't just keep waking up as is common when I try to sleep too early... I wanted to write more, but that prospect is looking increasingly bleak with every second that passes... Umm, yes... Ja.

Kaja

Yes, Kaja has enrolled and is a student of the second year Computing Framework, yay :D

Yesterday there were a couple of lectures (an introduction to the year and something about third year placements), which wasn't all that great (though I went and got my hair dyed dark again - yes! no roots! - at nine in the am) and last night went to the Hop with some PAL leaders and lecturers to meet the new Computing first years. Now, that was entertaining. Mostly while in the Hop we spoke to the lecturers and stole free food from the Freshers, but after most of them had left and Knaggs (SysNet lecturer :D) was getting sloshed a few of us decided to go to The Goat And Tricycle pub in Bournemouth.

Knaggs and bearded!Rob got a bus into town (after all of us leaving the Hop due to the beginnings of a Karaoke night) and Dave drove Matt and I home, where we dropped off our stuff and picked up James and naked!Rob. We met Knaggs and Rob in The Goat but Mattie-kins was kicked out for not having ID they would accept and had to get a taxi home on his own... the guy behind the bar was pretty nice about it though, he apologised to us afterwards. Then we sat around with drinks and talked for hours. Was remarkably fun and The Goat was a really nice place - have to go again at some point - though bearded!Rob tried to keep up with Knaggs' drinking and regretted it today XD

Today was enrollment. Mattie and I went into town for breakfast and passport-sized photos this morning, then met up with bearded!Rob before the meeting with Mike, Steve and Suzy about the first year programming changes (because of the PAL thing we have to know what's happening in our groups lectures and seminars) and which PAL groups we'd be getting. Then enrollment and sitting around in 'The Loft' (renamed D2! The bastards!) for lunch. Now we're in one of the labs, bored until the BCS lecture at three.

Yeah, so that's the past couple of days really. I just wanted to update because I'm trying to get into the habit and the more I do it, the more I'll remember to do it. Hope that wasn't too boring :D

Kaja

Haven't I though? Terrible stuff, I've abandoned dear old LJ for so long... I've been doing the old 'I'll-post-tomorrow-when-I-have-a-moment' thing. Bad me *slaps wrist* There was another WordPress post for a writing status update, but other than that... I really need to start getting into the habit of posting again. I'm in the process of going through A LOT of neglected FList ;_;

I spent today hunting about for fic. Started with general superhero ficage (hovering around Superman x Batman porn somewhat *shifty eyes* a housemate - who shall remain nameless - came in and was greatly bemused when reading some over my shoulder XD) and then I moved on to X-Men specific. I rediscovered my love for Wolverine x Rogue. Most recently found and admired included this one, this one and this one.

The past few days were spent re-watching 'HunterxHunter' with Mattie-kins (which became difficult to do after a while since I find spending too much time with him, even anime-watching time, drives me crazy... then again, to be fair to him I need my seclusion anyway) and over-loving Hisoka. I haven't written much over these few days, though I meant to do so today (and ended up reading fanfics but shhh), but I intend to do so tomorrow. I still need to do some Finishing Touch (the second chapter is started and liked, so why no more??) and the yaoi practice fic about vampires and werewolves (still unnamed :p) needs to be properly divided into chapters before I post any of it... I have a good ten or fifteen pages and was intending to have short, scene-length chapters so I have about three chapters already but... uselessness triumphs once again XDD

My writing project list (shamelessly skanked from my WordPress) looks something like this:

-Finishing Touch Second chapter still in progress

-Lucius x Harry, HP fanfic Almost dropped... I need to re-look at this and read some pairing-specific ficage to reassert its neccessity in my mind, but that seems like too much effort when I'm concentrating on original stuff at the moment

-Winter Child Have quite a lot of scenes down for random parts, may have a first chapter organised soon

-White Ruler Need to choose chapter structure before posting can occur

-Hydra ...no comment

-Chains, one-shot The famous love story attempt... *cough cough* no comment

-Komorebi-ya!, kabuki-centred fic The next time I get the proper inspiration I'll be able to really get cracking on this, I'm planned out some way into it

-Dragons, Healers and Stuff (working title XD), practice piece Um, yeah. This may vanish into the unknown. I'll keep some of the ideas if that happens though...

-VampirexWerewolf fic, practice piece The yaoi... coming along quite nicely if I do say so myself. I should have THREE CHAPTERS ready soon :D

-The Boss (working title), practice piece The shoujo piece... will be fun

-Blind Mage fic The idea is still occasionally raping my brain, but so far I have a paragraph... for something so keen to be told it's being notoriously difficult with me

Yeah... I have a lot going... and I keep thinking of new things too... I think giving the creative side of my brain full reign was something of a mistake XDD

I feel like I've accomplished a lot but, really, I haven't got much to show for it. I've accomplished in sense of self rather than word count... damn. Ah well, can't argue with what works I suppose; I'm at least doing something useful for the long run.

So... summer for me is almost over XD University starts next week and enrollment for second year (yes, after the SysNet exam fiasco I managed to sneak in there) is Thursday and Friday. I had PAL (Peer Assisted Learning) training last week for becoming a leader of first years; it was great fun other than the illness on the first day and the eight hours (on two days each) of mind-numbing, constant brain-RAWR. Basically the lesson of the three days is: you're a facilitator of learning, not a teacher. How enlightening. But the training was entertaining for meeting people after a rather stranded-with-Matt summer. Ironically, my partner PAL leader for whichever first year group(s) we get is the Mattie-chin *shrugs* I feel sorry for the first years personally...

Anyway, we're living in The Castle (my nickname for the house) and it's full now; Craggles is being loud and obnoxious with his PC game noise that you can hear in every room of the house, James is teasing me with his Pop Tarts about my lack of such, naked!Rob is up horribly early and does whatever naked!Rob does, and Matt... is Matt. Yay. Oh, and I'm still poor ^_^

Reading and watching. I've been reading various yaoi and shoujo manga, skanked from various sources, in the usual 'something-mindless-and-fun-to-do' way. Watched 'Paradise Kiss' (brilliant), 'Zombie Loan' (much liked), some 'Darker Than Black', more 'Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi' (standing as one of my favourite series still), some 'Tenshi na Konamaiki' (amusing) and the end of 'La Corda D'Oro' (I have some fondness for this series and I'm glad they weren't too 'pairey-pairey' at the end). I've watched quite a few films but, as is usual with me, I can't really be arsed to name them all. 'Children Of The Corn' was entertaining though. Oh, and anyone who has the chance and likes crazy gory films should watch 'Black Sheep' because it's just pure, undiluted brilliance xD

Current affairs. Uni starting up again is the only big event on the horizon, though my first PAL session will probably rank up there the night before when I realise how nervous I should be. Most of the leaders will be meeting the first years, probably, on Thursday when they do their presentations and, afterwards, go to the pub. Depending on our schedule that day, Mattie-rin and I may only go to the after-party due to a third-year-placements lecture that strategically overlaps the presentation session. What a loss.

I remember all of us going to the Hop as first years... seems like so long ago and yet no time at all seems to have passed...

Anyway, enough ramble, this post is long enough to scare people away from reading as it is. Another, much shorter post, should appear 'tomorrow', tomorrow or the day after :D

Kaja

P.S. Yay, post!

Well, we shall see... I'm posting from Uni at the moment in a kind of 'I-have-spare-time-while-waiting-for-tech-guy-to-unlock-the-door-to-free-computer-shit-what-shall-I-do' way. I'll start posting regularly again now (probably) since the new house (finally) has Internets.

Got woken up early for it too; naked!Rob got up early to meet the installation guy but it was decided that because my room is at the front they would pull the cables in through my front wall, so I was woken up by Rob and a random bloke coming in and pointing at various parts of my room in a 'that spot looks good' way. Still, Internets is always good. Amico has it sorted already but because the modem is poo and does very little on its own we had to go to WankPC World for a router. Then we went into town to look for a microwave but they were either too expensive (£50 WUT?) or from a charity place. We decided to go to Tescos at some point instead.

Now we're in Uni to collect random about-to-be-thrown-out PC parts to take home with us. The door is locked unfortunately and the guy we need to unlock it and talk to beforehand is notoriously hard to find. Now we're waiting for a different guy to finish lunch and come to help us.

I'll do a proper update later (or tomorrow), I just wanted something to do for now. I should have something writing-like finished and ready-to-read soon. I was a bit taken with my SysNet re-sit (details at some other point) revision and exam so I haven't really had much time to post or do anything LJ. I've been skimming posts on my FList, but other than that...

So yeah, I don't know if anyone bothers to read this anymore since I haven't exactly been being social with my FList (apologies) but now that I have Internet and no more exams (sort of) I can pay more attention to everything again. More writing and online socialising for Kaja! Till then, I'll finish this post and take part in naked!Rob and Mattie-kin's comparisons of Black & White 1 and 2 :D

Kaja

So... not much went on this week... Except PC gaming until six am of course... every day... :D

My days ran thus: I'd get up around three. For some reason I can't fathom I couldn't sleep anymore after that, despite late nights. Then I'd have brunch of cereal, or when I ran out of cereal, a glass of milk and some pop tarts or noodles. I would bum around on the Internets for a while, checking e-mails, reading FList and such, and then - in my pajamas, bright red plush dressing gown and lilac slippers - wander a couple of houses down to Mattie-kin's Student Village house, where we would proceed to immerse ourselves in the various worlds of Cossacks, Dungeon Siege II and DSII Broken World. Then, around six am, we would pack up - me leaving Nestor and snack foods I brought at the beginning of the week and have not yet eaten in the corner - and I would go home, take vitamins and fall into bed to have completely random dreams. Then, the cycle would begin again.

Right now, Matt is in my room playing Super Monkey Ball on my PS2 (while saying 'Pocket!" in a really weird voice XD). We're taking a break from PC for PS2 (can't wait for dance mat!) :D Unfortunately, I just discovered that my brother borked my only PS2 controller so I had to order another, despite lack of funds. We have Matt's controller still so we can play, but not multiplayer D: After the whole fiasco with discovering I left my TV remote at my parent's house - without which you can't use my TV hardly at all due to there only being volume and program buttons available on the actual set - this was a right pain in the arse.

So yeah, other than gaming there hasn't been much going on. We're going to pick up keys on Friday at 10.30 am ( DDDD: ) with James and possibly naked!Rob for move in on Sunday. And then 'Feo visits on the Tuesday until Friday, wai~ And also, possible futher visit in September! *happy K* :DDDD

Um, so that's it really for this post. I updated my WordPress yesterday but it was a sparse update due to not much writing going on... Still, writing will go on in the new house hopefully *doesn't hold out much hope on that front for this week* Till later, adieu.

Kaja

Not much has been going on. I finished the first chapter of Finishing Touch and posted and everything... but nothing much else.

I may be going into Waterstone's tomorrow with Matt to try and get me a term-time job :o Scary stuff. Other than that I'm going to get into the writing groove over the next week and get the first chapter of my new yaoi fic out as well as anything else I can get inspiration for to shove at people for praise. Those who haven't read my Finishing Touch yet... no cookie for you D:

Mattie-kins and I are learning how to throw cards as weapons. It's very fun and hurts a lot if you manage to do it right and hit me with them.

I've been watching 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' episodes and being a bit crap lately. Also I've been in really weird moods the past couple of days... *shrugs* No idea why. Though yesterday I was all thoughtful over a dream I had that played like a film/tv series; it was all about me and a new man-thing I managed to get at a party, with scenes that had different people in and such. It was all totally plausible so when I woke up it took a while for me to convince myself it wasn't real. Like that dream where I thought I was a man and when I woke up I was really surprised I had breasts and wasn't.

Oh, just to say: New status posts get put up on my WordPress every Sunday with any fic I've done.

That's it really. I just wanted to post, to post. I'm still trying to get back into posting everyday; I still check my FList everyday and read everyone's posts but I don't comment or post in my own anymore D: I'll have to try a bit harder. For now though, adieu.

Kaja

Kaja has finally gotten around to that last edit, so here for your pleasure is the first chapter of 'Finishing Touch'. Come on, it's summer; you know you have a little time in your schedule to give this a look through *bats eyes at FList*

Title: Finishing Touch
Author: kajamiku
Disclaimer: Mine, mine, mine...
Genre: Original - no good at classifying fic, especially my own, so read and find out so you can tell me
Rating: R
Warnings: (Entire fic) Language, minor violence, angst, sexual references... The usual
Status: Second chapter in progress
Summary/Notes: Quinn is a grumpy journalist stuck in a rut in his life; his job isn't going anywhere or paying enough for him to live adequately, his family problems are slowly putting more and more weight on his shoulders, he has the social life of a sock without its pair and, to make matters worse, he is now to endure the ultimate of tortures... a new roommate.

( Chapter One )

I'm around three pages into the next chapter but with so many other projects going as well you'll likely have something to read pretty soon. I'm relatively pleased with this right now... we'll see how I feel in a month or so xD

Kaja

Well, I'm in my new house. I moved in a couple of weeks ago and it's sooooo much better than 29. The people are doing their masters degrees so they aren't around much, but I don't mind really. I'm on the third floor with a room that's at least twice the size of my previous one. It's quiet and clean and I haven't wanted to kill anyone here at all, so I think it's going to be a nice place to stay until August comes and I move in with the guys. (That should be the 5th.)

I went to my parent's new house for a week, for the Christening, because my Dad's new job limits his ability to come and pick me up. I came back on Monday night. I wasn't all that happy at home really. I wasn't UNhappy, but still. The house is gorgeous; me and my brother's rooms are downstairs, along a corridor at the back, and although my room is very small and cold because I have unfinished patio doors instead of windows, I rather like it. Going through all my boxes of stuff was entertaining because I didn't realise I had so much. I kept finding things I thought I'd lost or didn't realise I had. A lot of the stuff had to go into storage in the shed because it wouldn't fit in my room, but I don't really live in that house more than a few weeks a year now so it shouldn't matter. Besides, I've lived without all that stuff for a year so I doubt I'll have any great need of it any time soon. I did bring my N64 and PS2 to Bournemouth with me however... ;D

I saw Ob; she came over for the night and we made our usual madness, though we didn't do very much writing really D: It was fun though and yes, 'Feo I remembered THE BOX so we'll have it when you visit again in August. That same evening, Basil, a guy who came to do my parent's gas stuff, thought I was still in secondary school, which I rather resented. I also got my Mum to read the first chapter of Finishing Touch that day, which was a bit of an accomplishment for me :D

The Christening made me pull distasteful faces and the party afterwards went on too long, but it wasn't too awful. The priest I nicknamed 'Flakey-Priest' because his bald head was... Yeah, I know. Ugh. He was, like, nine hundred years old too and had the short-term memory of a particularly old goldfish. Being at a family function like that made me remember the wedding I went to at New Year's as well; hundreds of people I don't know hugging and kissing everyone (including me) XDD I did have a bit of fun being included in the 'adult' group of our family for once though; usually they send me in to keep the kids calm, but that was my brother's job this time around.

We stayed at my Mum's parent's house over the weekend for the Christening and I really appreciated how hot she keeps the place (heating and gas fire on all year 'round) after being at my parent's where they don't seem to know what 'cold' is XD

So, now I'm back in 14. I bought a stupid amount of shopping before my parents left and didn't really have enough room for it - should have seen that coming really - and spent that evening with Matt and pizza. Yesterday I 'helped' Matt move in and get shopping. I also managed to make things work on Nestor :D

I keep not being able to sleep in - my Mum's fault for insisting I get up every day before noon - and it's beginning to get annoying because it means I'm sleepy at some silly hour in the evening (1am!). But yeah, it's nice to be home and away from my family. My brother was starting to get annoying again by Thursday, so by the Monday I came home I was fed up of having him in the same county as me.

Writing-wise... I have finished the first chapter of Finishing Touch, which will be posted either today or tomorrow when I've done the third go-through. White Ruler and Winter Child are coming along, I have new ideas for related fic and seperate ones, and my love story (I decided I had to try it at least once) and random kabuki-centred fic are taking shape as well. My HP fic hasn't seen anymore work, but will do when I have a moment.

I have things to do until August... Writing, revision for SysNet re-take and finding a job... in that order XDDDD (not really, don't hurt me Matt parentals).

That's the update post this time. I really need to post regularly so they don't get too long and thin like this one... Anyway, I should post tomorrow. If not a proper post then at least the first chapter of Finishing Touch. Till then, adieu.

Kaja
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